An Italianate Landscape (Primary Title)
Joshua Shaw, American, born England, ca. 1777 - 1860 (Artist)
After emigrating from England to Philadelphia in 1817, Joshua Shaw quickly established himself as one of America’s first landscape painters. His topographical sketches and watercolors were widely disseminated as prints – notably in the publication Picturesque Views of American Scenery (1820-21). Some of his scenes were also reproduced as decorative motifs on fine ceramics.
Not all of Shaw’s images were based on actual views; many, like An Italianate Landscape, were imagined vistas that reveal that artist’s understanding of picturesque landscape conventions developed earlier in Europe.
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